How come Windows and macOS users don't have to enter their password every time they need administrator privileges?
Isn’t it enough to just enter your password once to login, then receive a warning whenever you’re about to do something potentially dangerous?...
Federal agency warns critical Linux vulnerability being actively exploited (arstechnica.com)
Setting up WireGuard client with GNOME (rostislavjadavan.com)
Fedora Atomic Desktops – F40 Release Party (www.youtube.com)
KDE Apps Initiative (carlschwan.eu)
I’m announcing a new initiative to improve our applications ecosystem. The goal is to improve the quality and quantity of KDE applications and the number of application contributors. For anybody who knows me, it is not that surprising. Inside KDE, I have been mainly involved in apps for many years. I worked on all areas, from...
several external HDDs stop working after I play video. Is this a software or hardware issue?
Hardware: 2014 macbook, nuked macos, clean xubuntu 24.04 installation...
Exciting Updates on the GNOME Development Initiative and Sovereign Tech Fund – The GNOME Foundation (foundation.gnome.org)
Kdenlive 24.05 is out with a huge performance boost and the usual batch of quality of life, user interface and usability improvements. It also comes with a few exciting new features like Group Effects (kdenlive.org)
Godot 4.3 Beta 1 Released With Native Wayland Support (www.phoronix.com)
Pondering upon (the illusion of) different distros and its consequences - Thoughts?
Pondering upon (the illusion of) different distros and its consequences - Thoughts?...
Help with swaywm window rules?
Fellas, I’m at my wit’s end with this one. I’m trying to set a general rule for window opacity in sway, and then have a few programs excepted from it....
yt-dlp-lemon: Simple wrapper to yt-dlp with only a subset of options. (github.com)
Project name is changed from “ytdl” to “yt-dlp-lemon”, after user “lol” in the comments convinced me. Thank you for the suggestion! Remember to change the directory name at ~/.local/share/ytdl to ~/.local/share/yt-dlp-lemon ....
[SOLVED] cannot play audio on a fresh installed debian 12 xfce
I don’t know if I didn’t install non free firmware. Pavucontrol is installed. If I type alsa on a terminal it returns: bash: alsa: command not found....
Passim Peer to Peer Metadata – F40 Release Party (interesting solution for climate-friendlier fwupd usage) (www.youtube.com)
Change Proposal...
Here’s what we’re working on in Firefox | The Mozilla Blog (blog.mozilla.org)
[SOLVED] debian graphical installation, question about partition tables
I’m on partition disks, configuring LVM on a computer with 2 drives: /dev/nvme01 is the device I want to install in, SCSI2 is a storage HDD I do not want to format, I need the data....
questions about debian xfce
long time xubuntu user, now on 24.04....
Issue with mounting 2nd drive on boot
Bonjour tout le monde,...
Beachpatrol: A CLI tool to replace and automate your everyday web browser (Now with Firefox support) (github.com)
[SOLVED] still cannot open a transmission port, what am I doing wrong?
os: xubuntu 24.04...
Any advice for a long-time Linux user, first-time Linux *desktop* user?
I’m a regular user of Linux systems but apart from a couple of test Ubuntu installs many years ago they’ve always been containers or VMs with no DE which I can throw away when I break them. The Steam Deck showcasing how far Wine/Proton has come combined with Windows being Windows has given me the push; I’ve made a Mint...
Laptop Recommendation for Light Gaming
I currently have a low end Windows gaming laptop that I was planning to upgrade to Linux before Win10 goes end of life, but my HDMI port stopped working, so now I’m debating buying a new Linux laptop instead. Can anyone provide any recommendations?...
Wayland tiling compositor that will work okay with nvidia?
I understand that nvidia support for wayland is lacking, but I know it’s possible....
Linux Kernel 6.8 Reaches End of Life, Users Should Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.9 (9to5linux.com)
